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The Last of the Unjust a Film by Claude LANZMANN SYNECDOCHE and LE PACTE present THE LAST OF THE UNJUST A FILM BY CLAUDE LANZMANN SYNECDOCHE and LE PACTE present THE LAST OF THE UNJUST A FILM BY CLAUDE LANZMANN 2013 - France/Austria – 218 minutes - 1.85 - 5.1 INTERNATIONAL SALES INTERNATIONAL PRESS RICHARD LORMAND - FILM PRESS PLUS www.FilmPressPlus.com 5, rue Darcet - 75017 Paris [email protected] Tel. : + 33 (0)1 44 69 59 59 Tel. : +33 9 7044 9865 / +33 6 2424 1654 Fax : + 33 (0)1 44 69 59 42 www.le-pacte.com Press kit and materials can be downloaded from www.le-pacte.com SYNOPSIS 1975. In Rome, Claude Lanzmann filmed Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto, the only “Elder of the Jews”* not to have been killed during the war. A rabbi in Vienna, following the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, Murmelstein fought bitterly with Adolf Eichmann, week after week for seven years, managing to help around 121,000 Jews leave the country, and preventing the liquidation of the ghetto. 2012. Claude Lanzmann, at 87 – without masking anything of the passage of time on men, but showing the incredible permanence of the locations – exhumes these interviews shot in Rome, returning to Theresienstadt, the town “given to the Jews by Hitler”, a so-called “model ghetto”, but a ghetto of deceit chosen by Adolf Eichmann to dupe the world. We discover the extraordinary personality of Benjamin Murmelstein: a man blessed with a dazzling intelligence and a true courage, which, along with an unrivaled memory, makes him a wonderfully wry, sardonic and authentic storyteller. Through these three periods, from Nisko in Poland to Theresienstadt, and from Vienna to Rome, the film provides an unprecedented insight into the genesis of the Final Solution. It reveals the true face of Eichmann, and exposes without artifice the savage contradictions of the Jewish Councils. *according to Nazi terminology Rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein was the last Chairman of the Theresienstadt Judenrat (Jewish Council). I filmed him during a whole week in Rome in 1975. In my eyes, the case of Theresienstadt was capital, both lateral and central, in the genesis and process of the Final Solution. These long hours of interviews, rich in firsthand revelations, have never ceased to dwell in my mind and haunt me. I knew that I was the custodian of something unique but backed away from the difficulties of constructing such a film. It took me a long time to accept that I had no right to keep it to myself. Some 60 kilometers northwest of Prague, Theresienstadt, a fortress town built at the end of the 18th century by Emperor Joseph II and named after his mother, Marie-Theresa of Austria, had been picked by the Nazis as the site of what Adolf Eichmann himself called a “model ghetto”, a show ghetto. In March 1939, one year after the annexation of Austria (the Anschluss), Germany dismantled the Czechoslovakian Republic, replacing it with the puppet state of Slovakia and the Protectorate of Bohemian Moravia (the Hitlerian name for the Czech Republic). The decision to create the Theresienstadt ghetto was taken in September 1941. As the Nazis had done in all the ghettos in Poland since October 1939, they formed a Jewish Council, composed of twelve members and an Elder, called the Judenälteste, or “the Elder of the Jews” in their vocabulary of contempt and fear with its tribal connotations. In Theresienstadt, during the ghetto’s four years of existence, there were successively three Jewish Elders. The first, Jacob Edelstein, was a Zionist from Prague who cherished youth. After two years of Nazi hell, in which everything, absolutely everything, was forbidden to the Jews, he welcomed the birth of Theresienstadt with blind optimism, hoping that the difficult life that awaited them there would prepare them for their future settlement in Palestine. The Nazis arrested him in November 1943, deported him to Auschwitz, and killed him six months later with a bullet in the back of his head – Genickschuss –, after murdering his wife and son before his eyes in the same manner. The second Elder was Paul Eppstein. He was from Berlin and was also killed by a bullet in the back of his head in Theresienstadt itself on 27 September 1944. Benjamin Murmelstein, the third and therefore final Elder, a rabbi from Vienna, and deputy to Josef Löwenherz who presided over the Jewish community in the Austrian capital, was named Elder in December 1944. Murmelstein had a striking appearance and was brilliantly intelligent, the cleverest of the three and perhaps the most courageous. Unlike Jacob Edelstein, he could not bear the suffering of the elderly. Although he succeeded in keeping the ghetto going until the final days of the war and saved the population from the death marches ordered by Hitler, the hatred of some of the survivors came to be focused upon him. Holder of a diplomatic passport from the International Committee of the Red Cross, he could easily have fled. He refused, preferring to be arrested and imprisoned by the Czech authorities after a number of Jews accused him of collaborating with the enemy. He spent eighteen months in prison before being acquitted of all charges. He went into exile in Rome, where he lived a harsh life. He never went to Israel, despite his deep desire to do so and his pure love for that land. All the Jewish Elders met a tragic end: Parnass from Lvov (renamed Lemberg by the Germans); Adam Czerniakow from Warsaw, who committed suicide when the deportations to Treblinka began; Gens from Vilna; and Chaim Rumkowski, from Lodz, who, carried away by what he imagined was his power, went by the name of “King Chaim” and who had coins minted with his effigy. He managed to keep the Lodz ghetto going longer than any other, until the Germans brutally liquidated it, whilst condemning its “king” to the cruelest of ends, mocking his death in Auschwitz. Benjamin Murmelstein is the only Jewish Council Elder who survived the war, making his testimony infinitely precious. He does not lie; he is ironic, sardonic, harsh with others and with himself. Thinking of the title of André Schwarz-Bart’s masterpiece, The Last of the Just, he calls himself “The Last of the Unjust”. He thus gave this film its title. Before our interviews in 1975, he had written a book in Italian called Terezin, il ghetto modello di Eichmann, published in 1961. The tone of the book and that of the interviews are very different. The book describes the victims and their awful suffering with fraternal compassion and a real gift for writing, whilst in the interviews, Murmelstein instead presents his own defense. When I first quote him in the film, the year is 1942, with the arrival of a «transport» of German Jews from Hamburg, the Nazis having decided to make Germany Judenrein (purged of its Jews) and to deport the last Prominenten – the prominent – and those whose status had, until then, allowed them to remain in their homes, albeit in terrible conditions, to Theresienstadt. But, since 1941, Theresienstadt had above all been populated by Czech and Austrian Jews. Thanks to the former, members of the technical office responsible for developing construction plans, outstanding designers, we have an extraordinary collection of works of art that reveal what real life was like in the «model ghetto»: built to house 7,000 soldiers at the most, Theresienstadt took in 50,000 Jews during its peak periods. Most of these artists of genius, who got up in the middle of the night to secretly complete works that they interred deep underground, were murdered in the gas chambers of the death camps. But their names are forever inscribed in our memories, along with those of the great musicians, actors, writers and directors who went through Theresienstadt before dying farther east. One final word: instructed by Eichmann in Vienna to organize the forced emigration of the Jews of Austria from summer 1938 until the outbreak of war, Benjamin Murmelstein fought relentlessly to help more than 120,000 flee the country. CLAUDE LANZMANN INTERVIEW WITH CLAUDE LANZMANN At what point did you think of dedicating a film to the ambiguous figure of Benjamin Murmelstein, former President of the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia, until now often considered a collaborator ? You had a very long interview with him during the filming of SHOAH, in Rome in 1975 – why didn’t you use the footage then ? SHOAH is an epic film, and the overall tone is of unremitting tragedy. When you listen to Benjamin Murmelstein, you see that it doesn’t fit with that; it’s in another register. That said, he was the first protagonist I had filmed. It had been very difficult for me to organize a meeting with him. It was my wife at the time, the German writer Angelika Schrobsdorff – said to be the most beautiful woman in Germany – who convinced him, because he liked women. From Jerusalem, we had arrived in Rome with some very sophisticated camera and sound equipment, but as soon as we arrived, our minibus was completely ransacked by an organized Italian gang. We had to rush in some more equipment from Paris. That incident left me a bit stunned, but we still filmed for a whole week with him. It had been so difficult to make SHOAH the wayI did it, without commentary – the construction of the film itself generating its own intelligibility – that if I had included an episode like that, the film would have lasted 20 hours ! So I decided to deal with it later, but I put it off for a long time.
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